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I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.